July 2021: Before The Dragon

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Day Four
  • Revised and posted all three parts of chapter 45
  • Re-wrote chapter 46.1

"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus
"From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf
"A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni
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Day Five
  • Re-wrote part of 46.2
  • Back on the "just" hunt -- from 362 down to 216

"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus
"From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf
"A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni
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I drove literally all day today so not much on the NaNo front but I snuck in some edits before bed~

Day Six
  • Trimmed and combined 1.2 and 1.3

"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus
"From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf
"A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni
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Day Seven
  • Oops

Day Eight
  • Outlined Chapter 2.1

"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus
"From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf
"A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni
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I am very proud of you and all the work you've been doing! Your dedication to a single story is something to admire and for people to aspire to. I hope that you can meet your own expectations. <3
The politics of the world may be corrupt, but that does not mean that we must be corrupted ourselves.




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@TheScribe thanks so much for the kind words! <33

"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus
"From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf
"A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni
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My next word hunts are going to be per the advice of this article as well as ones @Carlito and I talked about before.

Words List
  • Was
  • Were
  • Will
  • Would have
  • Had
  • To be
  • Saw
  • Felt
  • Heard
  • Touched
  • Thought
  • Caused
  • Made
  • Looked
  • Turned
  • Walked
  • Went
  • Started to
  • Began to
  • That
  • Got

"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus
"From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf
"A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni
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Occurrences at the start @_@
Was = 3148
Were = 887
Will = 128
Would have = 35
Had = 733
To be = 302
Saw = 81
Felt = 280
Heard = 68
Touched = 7
Thought = 186
Caused = 9
Made = 156
Looked = 458
Turned = 240
Walked = 109
Went = 93
Started to = 6
Began to = 7
That = 1949
Got = 207

"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus
"From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf
"A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni
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ShadowVyper wrote:Occurrences at the start @_@


This right here *gestures* my jam 😌




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Day Nine
  • Shhhhh

Day Ten
  • Was = 3148 down to 3100
  • Edited 46.1
  • Worked on 46.2

"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus
"From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf
"A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni
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Day Eleven
  • Was = 3100 down to 3066

"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus
"From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf
"A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni
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*applauds your bravery for revising bc revising can be v scary*
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Okay, I was in the field the 12th through today. So I'm behind. BUT! I made good progress on the NaNo front today! The end is so close I can taste it

  • Finished 46.2
  • Wrote 47

"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus
"From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf
"A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni
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Been super busy with work and traveling but managed to finish the draft! And have so far cut about 5k words from the total word count by removing some sloppy scenes early on.

"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus
"From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf
"A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni
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